Russia recognized this on Monday he is fighting a group of saboteurs from Ukrainehours after Kiev reported a Russian nighttime shelling that briefly cut power to the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.
This was reported by the governor of the Belgorod region of Russia, Viacheslav Gladkov two people were injured in a bomb attack in the village of Glotovo and that there are three more wounded in Graivoron and one in Zamostie.
This operation illustrates Moscow’s apparent difficulties in securing the security of your border in areas bordering Ukraine, where an increasing number of attacks have been recorded in recent weeks.
Gladvok announced that “a legal anti-terrorism regime” has been introduced in the region to ensure the safety of citizens.
The Russian reaction
This regime empowers law enforcement agencies, allowing the enforcement of measures such as strengthen identity checksmeans and communications, as well as greater ease in carrying out “anti-terrorist” interventions.
The raid comes after the Russia weekend claimed the seizure of Bajmut, a city in eastern Ukraine that was the scene of the fiercest and bloodiest battle since the conflict began in February 2022.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky He denied that his forces lost Bakhmut and said his army still controls a small swath and continues to press Russian troops north and south of the city.
For its part, the Russian paramilitary group Wagner said its forces intend to withdraw from Bakhmut between May 25 and June 1. to surrender their positions to the regular army.
This Monday, the Russian authorities reported that “a sabotage and reconnaissance group” from Ukraine entered the Graivoron district of the Belgorod region.
“The Russian Armed Forces, together with the border guards, Rosgvardia (national guard) and the FSB (security services) carry out all the necessary measuress to liquidate the enemy,” the governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov reported on Telegram.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been briefed on the raid, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov told reporters, saying the operation was an attempt by Ukraine to “divert attention” after Bakhmut’s loss of control.
For its part, the Ukrainian presidency has assured this “It does not matter” with the raid, but following the situation with “interest”.
The raid was claimed in a Telegram chain from an account claiming to belong to “Freedom for Russia Legion”a group of Russians fighting alongside Ukraine, and which has already claimed previous operations in the same region.
“The time has come to end the Kremlin dictatorship”, a man who introduced himself to AFP in December as “César”, a spokesman for the group, said in a video broadcast by the network. This man was described in the media as a former right-wing neo-Nazi who switched to the Ukrainian side in 2014.
unprecedented attack
According to the network, the group “totally liberated” a village in the Belgorod region and attacked a second town.
For their part, the Ukrainian authorities said they had rejected – at least in part – an unprecedented Russian air attack launched in the night with missiles and drones against the city of Dnipro, in the center-east of the country.
According to regional authorities, seven people were injured. Dnipro mayor Boris Filatov said that “there has never been a shelling (against the city) of this intensity” since the start of the Russian offensive.
The Russian bombing also caused, according to the Ukrainian authorities, a temporary power outage at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plantthe largest plant in Europe occupied by the Russians since the beginning of the conflict.
This plant has suffered several bombings and it is the seventh time it has been left without access to the electricity grid.
The plant is currently closed and does not produce electricity, but the plant needs power for its own needs, including cooling its six reactors.
In recent weeks, at a time when a major Ukrainian counter-offensive is expected, Russian territory has been subjected to an increasing number of sabotages and bombings, which Moscow attributes to Kiev and which Ukraine denies.
At the diplomatic level, Zelenski attended the G7 summit in Japan over the weekend, where the countries of this group of the seven most advanced economies made him new promises of shipments of military equipment.
Source: Clarin
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